Step away ...
Excuse my rant. I'll try to keep it brief. A remake of a Japanese story.
This seems more appropriate for 9 year-olds than for anyone who has achieved double digits.
Supposed to be the story of an inexperienced lawyer who is naively trying to be conscientious and ethical, but is roundly abused by everyone, and a mercilessly money-grasping lawyer who never loses a case. Perhaps she's supposed to rub off on him, I dunno. We follow them as they undertake a number of 'hopeless' cases and somehow sweep all logic before them. How? By using emotional appeals, lies, and manipulation that even a three year old would see through.
There's a pretty unbelievable back-story which we are supposed to feel explains the boss's narcissism, but nah.
Our rookie lawyer, who had supposedly decided she would stand up for herself and stop being walked all over, well, to be fair, she sort of does a bit, but is rendered completely speechless by her boss's behaviour which often resembles that of a toddler - actually many toddlers are more mature.
There is also an underlining "thriller" plot, involving an apparently random guy trotting around knifing people almost on a casual basis.
The acting is frankly pretty hammy, the writing is very poor indeed (in my view). I tried to give it a really GOOD chance, because it is clear it's not written for anyone with more than one brain cell. Now, if you like that humour, great, and it may be better written than I can say, and that's fine. But it's just too blunt for me and trying far too hard to stretch what I can bear...
If you like THAT kind of humour, then it might be worth a watch for a laugh, but it is completely unfunny for me.
Oh and the music - not bad in itself, but too loud, too prominent, not fitting the scenes, or else trying too hard to make me cry at fake "emotional" scenes, overall very irritating.
So - no - certainly not for me. Find this really hard to mark because it is so grim: but some of the actors are good actors doing their best with dross - so, I'll stretch this to 3/10 Honestly if I could have given 0 stars in some categories I would have ...
This seems more appropriate for 9 year-olds than for anyone who has achieved double digits.
Supposed to be the story of an inexperienced lawyer who is naively trying to be conscientious and ethical, but is roundly abused by everyone, and a mercilessly money-grasping lawyer who never loses a case. Perhaps she's supposed to rub off on him, I dunno. We follow them as they undertake a number of 'hopeless' cases and somehow sweep all logic before them. How? By using emotional appeals, lies, and manipulation that even a three year old would see through.
There's a pretty unbelievable back-story which we are supposed to feel explains the boss's narcissism, but nah.
Our rookie lawyer, who had supposedly decided she would stand up for herself and stop being walked all over, well, to be fair, she sort of does a bit, but is rendered completely speechless by her boss's behaviour which often resembles that of a toddler - actually many toddlers are more mature.
There is also an underlining "thriller" plot, involving an apparently random guy trotting around knifing people almost on a casual basis.
The acting is frankly pretty hammy, the writing is very poor indeed (in my view). I tried to give it a really GOOD chance, because it is clear it's not written for anyone with more than one brain cell. Now, if you like that humour, great, and it may be better written than I can say, and that's fine. But it's just too blunt for me and trying far too hard to stretch what I can bear...
If you like THAT kind of humour, then it might be worth a watch for a laugh, but it is completely unfunny for me.
Oh and the music - not bad in itself, but too loud, too prominent, not fitting the scenes, or else trying too hard to make me cry at fake "emotional" scenes, overall very irritating.
So - no - certainly not for me. Find this really hard to mark because it is so grim: but some of the actors are good actors doing their best with dross - so, I'll stretch this to 3/10 Honestly if I could have given 0 stars in some categories I would have ...
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